Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 184 409 345
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.82% 10.06% 10.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.45% 29.70% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 100 200 207
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,450 £39,252
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,438 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,313 £79,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £100,750 £90,000
South East median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.23% +18.18% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 585 1,377 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.31% 33.88% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 420 806 941
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,770 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,125 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -34 87 £46,760 -33.20% 76
Oxfordshire -7 50 £65,000 +10.64% 84
Buckinghamshire -9 47 £60,000 +4.35% 35
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Appian
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (11.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.80%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.98%) AWS
2 55 (29.89%) Azure
3 49 (26.63%) Power Platform
4 31 (16.85%) GCP
5 23 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 22 (11.96%) Serverless
7 19 (10.33%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (9.78%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (8.15%) GitHub
10 12 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.89%) Azure AI
12 7 (3.80%) dbt
12 7 (3.80%) Google Analytics
12 7 (3.80%) Google Docs
13 6 (3.26%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.26%) SaaS
13 6 (3.26%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.35%) DNS
2 7 (3.80%) Firewall
3 5 (2.72%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.17%) Wireless
5 3 (1.63%) Broadband
5 3 (1.63%) HTTP
5 3 (1.63%) Internet
6 2 (1.09%) 5G
6 2 (1.09%) DHCP
6 2 (1.09%) FTP
6 2 (1.09%) MQTT
6 2 (1.09%) SMTP
6 2 (1.09%) SSH
7 1 (0.54%) 4G
7 1 (0.54%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.54%) MIMO
7 1 (0.54%) Modbus
7 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.54%) SpaceWire
7 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.91%) Power BI
2 27 (14.67%) Relational Database
3 24 (13.04%) BigQuery
4 23 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (11.41%) Tableau
6 18 (9.78%) RDBMS
7 15 (8.15%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.43%) Metadata
9 6 (3.26%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.72%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.63%) Data Hub
11 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.63%) Looker
11 3 (1.63%) MySQL
11 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.09%) Airbyte
12 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (16.30%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.41%) Git
3 18 (9.78%) JMeter
3 18 (9.78%) JUnit
3 18 (9.78%) Mockito
4 9 (4.89%) JIRA
5 6 (3.26%) GitLab
5 6 (3.26%) Selenium
6 5 (2.72%) MLflow
7 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.17%) Postman
7 4 (2.17%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.17%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.63%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.63%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.09%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.54%) Appium
10 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
General
1 61 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.22%) Law
4 26 (14.13%) Marketing
5 24 (13.04%) Finance
6 22 (11.96%) Public Sector
7 15 (8.15%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.35%) Retail
9 7 (3.80%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.17%) Legal
11 3 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.63%) Retail Finance
12 2 (1.09%) Banking
12 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.54%) Aviation
13 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (18.48%) Developer
2 30 (16.30%) Analyst
3 25 (13.59%) Senior
4 24 (13.04%) Architect
5 20 (10.87%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (10.87%) GCP Architect
5 20 (10.87%) Java Developer
5 20 (10.87%) Platform Architect
6 17 (9.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (9.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 15 (8.15%) Data Analyst
7 15 (8.15%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 13 (7.07%) Software Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Junior
10 9 (4.89%) Junior Analyst
10 9 (4.89%) Junior Data Analyst
10 9 (4.89%) Lead
11 8 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 8 (4.35%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.85%) REST
2 21 (11.41%) HTML
3 20 (10.87%) Spring
3 20 (10.87%) Spring Boot
4 19 (10.33%) JSON
4 19 (10.33%) Web Services
4 19 (10.33%) XML
5 18 (9.78%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (9.78%) Apache Camel
5 18 (9.78%) Hibernate
5 18 (9.78%) jQuery
5 18 (9.78%) WireMock
6 12 (6.52%) SOAP
7 9 (4.89%) .NET
8 7 (3.80%) Middleware
9 5 (2.72%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (2.72%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.72%) React
9 5 (2.72%) Visualforce
10 4 (2.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.35%) Life Science
4 7 (3.80%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.72%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.72%) SCADA
5 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.17%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.17%) IoT
6 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (1.63%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.63%) Animation
7 3 (1.63%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.63%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.63%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.09%) LIMS
9 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.76%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Windows
3 10 (5.43%) Unix
4 3 (1.63%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.09%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.54%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (32.07%) Agile
2 57 (30.98%) Analytics
3 49 (26.63%) CI/CD
4 47 (25.54%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (17.93%) Roadmaps
7 32 (17.39%) Data Science
7 32 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 31 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (15.22%) DevOps
9 28 (15.22%) Strategic Roadmap
10 27 (14.67%) AI
10 27 (14.67%) Cloud Security
11 26 (14.13%) ETL
11 26 (14.13%) SDLC
12 25 (13.59%) Computer Science
13 24 (13.04%) Cost Optimisation
13 24 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 72 (39.13%) SQL
2 56 (30.43%) Java
3 40 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 26 (14.13%) Go
5 21 (11.41%) Shell Script
6 15 (8.15%) Bash
7 14 (7.61%) C#
7 14 (7.61%) C++
8 12 (6.52%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.72%) Apex Code
10 5 (2.72%) C
10 5 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.72%) PHP
11 4 (2.17%) Fortran
11 4 (2.17%) Perl
11 4 (2.17%) R
11 4 (2.17%) T-SQL
11 4 (2.17%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (22.28%) Degree
2 27 (14.67%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.15%) Azure Certification
3 15 (8.15%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.89%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.26%) PhD
7 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.63%) ACCA
8 3 (1.63%) CIMA
8 3 (1.63%) OSCP
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.09%) MCSE
9 2 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.09%) RHCE
10 1 (0.54%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.54%) GPEN
10 1 (0.54%) LPIC
10 1 (0.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.15%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.89%) QA
3 4 (2.17%) GDPR
4 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.63%) ECSS
4 3 (1.63%) NIST
5 2 (1.09%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (1.09%) GxP
6 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (19.02%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) vCloud
3 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.09%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.54%) GPFS
5 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.54%) Lustre
5 1 (0.54%) NFS
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (29.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.33%) Kibana
3 11 (5.98%) Ansible
3 11 (5.98%) Terraform
4 4 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (2.17%) Kubeflow
4 4 (2.17%) Rundeck
5 3 (1.63%) Argo
5 3 (1.63%) Grafana
5 3 (1.63%) Nmap
5 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) Control-M
6 1 (0.54%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.54%) SCCM
6 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (16.85%) Google
2 19 (10.33%) Dynatrace
3 18 (9.78%) Splunk
4 15 (8.15%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.26%) Databricks
6 6 (3.26%) VMware
7 5 (2.72%) Allen-Bradley
7 5 (2.72%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.72%) Siemens
8 4 (2.17%) SAP
9 3 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.63%) Talend
10 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.09%) Cognos
10 2 (1.09%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.09%) IBM
10 2 (1.09%) Informatica
10 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.09%) Zoho